Album name: mitko / New Zealand Current status: Active Construction details: 1900 Focal plane elevation ASL, m: 20 Light Description: Long Flashing, 10s, 314-107 white Range, nm: 7 nm Coordinates: 41 15.5774 S 174 51.8214 E Displayed: 190 times Date added: Mar 08, 2020 DateTime Original: 2020:01:02 13:43:41 Keywords: Wellington / New Zealand / Wellington Harbour
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Cuvier Island, New Zealand
Lighthouse overview Cuvier Island Lighthouse guards the approach to Auckland Harbour and the Hauraki Gulf. It marks the first sight of land for ships coming in from the Pacific and is New Zealand’s most distant offshore lighthouse. Lighthouse feature: Details Location: latitude 36°26’ south, longitude 175°47’ east Elevation: 119 metres above sea level Construction: cast iron Continue reading “Cuvier Island, New Zealand”
Finnish submarine Vesikko
Vesikko is a submarine, which was launched on 10 May 1933 at the Crichton-Vulcan dock in Turku. Until 1936 it was named by its yard number CV 707. Vesikko was ordered by a Dutch engineering company Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw (a German front company) in 1930 as a commercial submarine prototype, being the prototype for the German Type II submarines. Purchased by the Finnish before World War II, she saw serviceContinue reading “Finnish submarine Vesikko”
Plunger/A-1 (SS-2) was one of the earliest submarines of the United States Navy.
She was the lead boat of Plunger class and later renamed A-1 when she was designated an A-type submarine. She is not to be confused with the experimental submarine Plunger (1897) which was evaluated by the US Navy from 1898 to 1900, but not accepted or commissioned. Design The Plunger-class submarines were enlarged and improved versions of the preceding Holland, the first submarine in the USN. They had aContinue reading “Plunger/A-1 (SS-2) was one of the earliest submarines of the United States Navy.”
Heavy cruiser USS Chester (CA-27) off Mare Island Navy Yard, 6 August 1942
The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Chester (CA-27) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, after torpedo damage repairs and overhaul, 2 October 1943.
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